This week, the Obama administration reaffirmed the sale of nearly 500 oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea, once again putting Big Oil before science and the American public. See what Defenders’ president and CEO Jamie Rappaport Clark has to say about opening the pristine Arctic to dangerous drilling.

Twenty-two years since the Exxon Valdez ran aground and spewed hundreds of thousands barrels of oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound, we still haven’t learned our lesson that drilling for oil is a dirty and dangerous operation.